My guess: Perhaps this is a bug, or alternatively, a known issue that won't be addressed because to do so would be a breaking change.
There is an old demo of Clojure given by Rich where MapEntry's were printed using some sort of un-readable notation #<:foo 5>. But clearly MapEntry's have been revised to act a lot like 2-element vectors. user=> (rseq (first (mapv identity {:foo 5}))) (5 :foo) user=> (conj (first (mapv identity {:foo 5})) :x) [:foo 5 :x] user=> (assoc (first (mapv identity {:foo 5})) 1 7) [:foo 7] user=> (subvec (first (mapv identity {:foo 5})) 0 1) [:foo] FWIW, ClojureScript behaves in your expected way: (empty (first (mapv identity {:foo 5}))) => [] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.